Trees by Joyce Kilmer — In Honor of Earth Day

Editors note: In honor of the 51st Earth Day on April 22nd and National Poetry Month WFWP would like to share a famous poem written by Joyce Kilmer in 1913.

Trees

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.